13-05-2023, 09:03 AM
(This post was last modified: 13-05-2023, 09:13 AM by Nick Lettington.)
(13-05-2023, 08:42 AM)Howard Wright Wrote: I’m Green with envy….
Both for the cars and garage space!
Cheers
Howard
Hmm... I agree wholeheartedly. I suspect the garage is a tad bigger than mine, but the space is full of every conceivable part, including a shiny new oil pressure pipe thanks to Ruairidh, Colin D and the advice on silver solder.
Colin's suggestion for the flat ended nipple was a good one, they seem hard to find, so the obvious thing to do is to file a tapered one. This isn't easy as they are small and easily crushed, but if you chuck it carefully in a drill and press it against a metal file, it all works rather well. There's a spigot on the back of the gauge and it was necessary to run a small drill into the end of the nipple to clear it... so the drill bit was clamped in the vice and the chucked nipple lowered onto it.
Oh... and who knew there used to be a tiny cork washer in the joint? I now have a tiny leather one courtesy of some tiny wad punches I nearly didn't keep.
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